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...like a post-Cold War conference, the Warsaw Pact versus the NATO Pact," he said. "At least the opening dinner will be an evening of convivality...
...expensive but unconventional new one. Despite the end of the cold war, the Pentagon budget Rumsfeld inherits will be larger--at $295 billion--than his 1976 budget of $282 billion, after adjusting for inflation. But even as his boss talks of modernizing the military for the surprises of a post-cold war era, Rumsfeld is going to need all that bigger purse, and more. Bush has pledged more pay for the troops, and Rumsfeld has called for restarting production of $2.4 billion B-2 bombers and wants to begin building the $200 million F-22 fighter. Both men want...
Rumsfeld likes to quote a fellow Chicagoan on the efficacy of arms. "You get a lot more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone," Al Capone used to say. Rumsfeld retools the gangster's words for the post-cold war world. "You can substitute 'ballistic missile' for the word gun--and put in the names of some regional Al Capones--and it is every bit as appropriate today," he says. But even if a missile shield works, critics fear it will destabilize current alliances and trigger arms buildups by America's enemies...
...While the law of the free market has become incontrovertible in post-Cold War Washington, the intelligence community is still prepared to throw out some observations that don't exactly parrot market orthodoxy. For one thing, they explicitly bemoan the loss of one of the key policy levers of the Cold War era - the targeted projection of U.S. economic power. If it weren't for the Marshall Plan, most of Western Europe would have gone communist at the end of World War II - at the ballot box. Plowing billions of dollars of aid and investment into Europe also created...
...after the high court's ruling, so as to avoid interference in the judicial process. The sad truth for Pinochet may be that the flap sparked by his arrest is nothing approximating a national crisis. Seizing power again is no longer a plausible option for the military in a post-Cold War world, and the indictment of their former leader is simply a product of democracy and an independent judiciary. The most striking thing about the reaction the general's arrest has been how little protest it has provoked - small groups of well-groomed women have rallied to the general...